Add your Aha moments and great resources:

  • The Teaching Channel: info and LESSON PLANS!!
  • Slideshare: more lesson plans.
  • LitCharts: terrific guides to literature for teachers and students
  • Genius.com: line-by-line annotations of literature, history, music, etc.
  • Common Core: all standards, for your cutting-and-pasting needs.
  • Youtube links with video start and end times: use format of https://www.youtube.com/v/sFW-yxe13lo?start=1&end=87
  • GoNoodle.com - For fun, interactive brain breaks
  • Lynda.com- Website that has tutorials/classes on all different topics. Membership is included in your Simmons fees.
  • Calm.com- Calming sounds
  • Padlet: with one gripe: the redo/undo feature is a little clunky in that it doesn't allow multiple steps back; I discovered this after twice having to retype full submissions. Perhaps this isn't the case when logged in.
  • ActivelyLearn
  • Random Name Selector: randomized student selection app; features include allowing for repeats.
  • Team Shake: Create random teams from your class list; features include sorting/balancing gender, capabilities, etc.
  • Socrative allows teacher to get real time data from students